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  1. Re:What is this? on ChromeOS Zero Released · · Score: 1

    The plan is installed by the manufacturer.

    The only other place that seems to be installing chrome OS is as an upgrade to existing thin clients.

  2. Re:What is this? on ChromeOS Zero Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are different in that google only releases the source.

    If you have ever installed linux from scratch or some similar OS, you can install chrome. As far as I understand, google has no plans to release chrome OS binaries, They expect anyone installing Chrome OS to be able to compile code from source.

  3. YUI is nice for building user interfaces. on Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces? · · Score: 1

    YUI has a BSD style license and is really nice for building cross browser friendly user interfaces.

    The downside of YUI is that the CSS does not validate as it uses the "holly hack" to do IE specific stuff instead of an if define in the header and a separate IE stylesheet.

    I know people that like blueprint, you might also check out http://www.webdesignbooth.com/10-promising-css-framework-that-worth-a-look/ and see if any of these meet your needs.

  4. Re:Nautilus following KDE's Dolphin? on Gnome Switches Nautilus Back To Browser Mode · · Score: 1

    Mac os 9 and prior also used spacial views, and gnome borrowed much more from Mac os classic than any other desktop environment.

    Maybe spacial views was one of the things that hurt Apple prior to OS X?

  5. Re:Backing Bruce's Copyright on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As I posted to Bruce, you probably have standing to see the undisclosed settlement.

    You probably need the consent of all parties, but I expect a copyright attorney could make that happen for you. in short order, but I suspect you and Bruce need to go through the courts to see it.

    "What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?"

    "A good start."

    "I used to be offended by layers jokes, now I see them as simple truths." -- Garfield, War of the Roses

  6. Re:Backing Bruce's Copyright on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    A minor correction a derivative work as defined by US copyright law.

    That is the big problem. Nobody can tell you exactly where that line is, a good copyright attorney can tell you a bunch of different outcomes based on your facts.

    I asked thee attorneys about a specific GPL issue in 2005 and got around a dozen different answers (seven of them from one attorney).

    The only thing I got out of it is, make sure that the otherside is aware that they are stepping into legal hell and that you will settle if they call off the dogs. The dollar amounts are insane. See all the RIAA suits for evidence of that.

  7. Re:Backing Bruce's Copyright on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Clean-room engineering is a legal strategy to make your copyright easier to defend, and gives you a better chance at prevailing in litigation that is employed when you are fairly sure you are going to be sued.

    Derivative works are a woolly gray are that is subject to all the rules of 1 + 1 = N

    (of course N may be 2, 1, 0, in the range between 0-1, 3, 11, and probably a few other mathematically correct answers I am not remembering at the moment, depending on the context)

    Your clean room implementation can still lose a lawsuit declaring it a derivative work, and you can have a non-clean room implementation found to be non-infringing.

    Or here be dragons.

  8. Re:Worst summary ever. on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Informative

    IANAL but have spent a lot time this last decade around the US legal system.

    I would see if you could not find someone that would file a motion with the court to let you see the settlement.

    You would probably have to propose and agree to terms of non-disclosure, but you are an interested party that has standing to know if you have reason to enter negotiations with the defendants in the lawsuit for copyright infringement. The matter has been settled, in an identical suit with identical facts with the identical defendant.

    You would almost certainly have to provide proof of copyright ownership of some of the code subject in the complaint.

    You might have to file a lawsuit in order to see the case, but an attorney could advise you on the details.

    Lawyers are like nukes, you have them because the other side has them, but using them makes everything much more complicated.

    Good luck

  9. Re:Raises an interesting issue on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    The US printing business grew by copying european books verbatim and printing them on cheaper paper for 10% of the cost.(overhead included making sure that copyright was limited to sixteen years, also newspapers were not copyrightable.)

  10. Re:Proposition on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I would just include the source in a directory. and not worry about it.

  11. Re:Of course it is. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    When a windows computer has been so corrupted by malware that a a reinstall in needed, ask them to try linux mint (that you install) and say that if it doesn't work for them, you can reinstall Windows for them, but this will prevent the problem you are fixing from happening again. (you are not lying just using marketing weasel words. They may have new and different problems, but the windows malware is no longer an issue.)

    These tend to be the semi-technical people that Ubuntu type linux distros are perfect for, if they could clean up the malware for themselves, they probably know windows well enough that they are doing something windows specific. And if they keep their anti-virus and and anti-spyware software up to date, they probably won't see any advantage to changing.

    Just my experience, yours may be different.

  12. Re:Of course it is. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    Experienced programmers tend to write a lot of documentation because, while no one else will read it, you will in ten years and be going WTF was I thinking when I wrote this??? You will then read the documentation you wrote, and things will become clearer, like yes you were an idiot ten years ago :-)

  13. Re:Ok then.. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    I'd insert a blank CD in the CD ROM drive.

    Windows would then automatically pop up a dialog asking me what I want to do with this blank CD - such as write files to it.

    Funny that's the same thing that happens with my Debian workstation.

  14. Re:A bad trade off. on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    My dell boots chromium in about 40 seconds 37 seconds are waiting for the bios to start loading chromium.

  15. Re:Diversity is good. on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    The rest of the fragmentation is made up of nearly identical clones of Debian and Redhat. This is, out of the box, a substantially different version of ubuntu

    There, fixed that for you.

  16. Re:Diversity is good. on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    ... and an elephant is a mouse built to engineering specs.

  17. Re:Diversity is good. on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    You do realize that chromium-os is more or less a special live cd of ubuntu right? (You basically have to install ubuntu in a jail to build it.)

  18. Re:The real reason on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    Recompile for whatever architecture you want,...

    With lots and lots of hacking, (or maybe just a little at this point. the V8 javascript engine is i386/amd64 only at this point, but there is an ongoing effort to port it to all of debian's architectures that at least complies last I checked.

  19. Re:The real reason on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you.

    Colin Sautar

  20. Re:The real reason on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) I can't move from amazon web services to go grid? even if I the data synced?

    Even so, when Gmail was down I could get my email from gmail. (only the web frontend was broken, IMAP and POP3 were still available.)

    2) Initial outlay to do off site backups is so much higher if using UPS instead of doing it over the wire. Initial setup time is longer on the cloud,

    The lesson is not don't use the cloud, the lesson is do not use closed non-portable data storage formats.

    3) Did you check to see if there is a wire going from your keyboard to your ethernet card?

    Some Dell laptops shipped that way.

    Saying you have never been hacked is just asking to be made a fool of. All you know is that you have seen no evidence of being hacked. If you are running snort, aide, and tripwire, that evidence may leave very few attack vectors unmonitored.

    Most users notice that cloud services are so much more reliable than services run by the in-house it department.(You know you are getting things somewhat reliable, when you no longer think twice about turning off the primary server in the middle of the work day,because, no one will lose more than a couple minutes work at worst case, and you have about an 90% chance of nobody noticing.)

    The idea of the old computer sitting in the closet during emergencies is not the same as having something live If you use

    The lesson that the Mainframes, minis, pcs, and the cloud have given us over and over again is trust nothing, trust no one,
    have a failover plan, have a backup to take to court, and plan around the bleeding edge future technology, because by the time you are done planning and have a pilot project out, the bleeding edge will be on sale at the local store.

    Avoid vendor lock in, don't trust the drive you are writing to, don't trust the processor, but use them anyways. work around the lake of trust.

  21. Re:Antitrust on Less Than Free · · Score: 1

    If a company throws a party with an open bar to advertise their products would you say they're breaking into the booze market?

    It would probably suck to be the bar next door if the party seems to be scheduled every night for the next ten years.

  22. Re:It's about social status... on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    Try figuring out the math for a sweep second hand on a digital clock.

    Calculus will make it much easier to solve the problem. (well maybe less insanely painful would be a better phrase.)

    Many estimation techniques require calculus to understand how the curve fitting is actually working.

    If you have been coding for years, you might find that taking a calculus class at your local community college is very useful, as you probably use calculus indirectly an a fairly frequent basis.

    Back when you were in college it was probably an abstract idea that was being poorly explained and you had no knowledge of what the instructor was trying to explain.

    Learning the theory when you know the practice is generally very informative, as you know what can be done with everything, you do it all the time.

  23. Re:Slaves wear collars on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    SCO had the dress code - clothes must be worn during business hours.

    This was due to the fact that the policy was NOT being followed by some programmer(s) when an investor stopped by.

    Or so the rumor goes.

  24. Re:How come they never test Comodo? on Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good" · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the open source Clamwin antivirus program.

    http://www.moonsecure.com/

    Should be a better fit as I believe it uses the windows idea of how an anti-virus program should work (scan on read.)

  25. Re:Something fishy. on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 1

    I suspect your memory is a little faulty.

    Akamai has been reverse proxying whitehouse.gov for quite some time.

    So IIS on linux might have been reported, but all sites akamai proxies for show up as being on linux. See
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=search.microsoft.com for example

    of IIS/6.0 on linux.